National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps!

Mrs. Yollis is a geography enthusiast! For many years, she has brought the National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps to her district. 

The Giant Traveling Maps are a fabulous, hands-on learning tool to help students develop a love of geography. We recommend you rent them for your school! 

In November, we helped National Geographic create three promotional movies for the giant maps.  Here are the results!

Giant Traveling Map




 History of the Giant Traveling Maps! 

Activities and Materials that Come With the Giant Traveling Maps! 

What do you like about the giant maps?

Share something you know about geography! 

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November is Family Blogging Month

Mrs. Yollis and her students ♥ to share what they are learning and experiencing. In an effort to include more family members in our online community, we are proclaiming: 

November is Family Blogging Month!

Each student made a list of their family members. After looking through the archive, students selected specific posts tailored to the interest of a particular relative. 

We're inviting everyone to comment: moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles, aunts, and cousins. 

We welcome friends, too!

Students will be inviting their family and friends to participate in a conversation! 
Maybe we'll get some 2-point comments! 

(We frequently evaluate the comments that our blog has received. In order to earn the 2-points, a comment must be error-free and add something to the post.   Many of Mrs. Yollis' third graders have already met the challenge!)

If you don't know what to say, here is a video made by Mrs. Yollis' third graders. 

Learn FIVE tips for writing a quality comment! 

If you don't know How to leave a comment, here is a video tutorial about HOW to leave a comment on our blog.

Here is the key we will use for  Family Blogging Month.

 

What do you think of our idea?

Who are you inviting to be a part of our online community?

Please leave a comment and introduce yourself!

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Welcome Back! 2015-2016

Welcome back to a new school year! 

Today was our first day of school!

Like Buck, we jumped right in and started our adventure! 

Photo by Mr. Yollis 

In the morning, students and families lined up to meet the teacher and hear a few opening remarks from the principal. 

In class, we had a lot of fun talking about geography. Students placed push pins in locations they have visited or would like to visit someday.

Sometimes two push pins were required. Sometimes placement on the WORLD map and the map of the UNITED STATES was needed.

When Mrs. Yollis held up the globe, Sawyer remarked that she looked like the Roman god, Atlas! What do you think? 

Photo by Lily

After recess, we opened up and categorized all the supplies. Later, students had fun "building" using the supply boxes, the Kleenex boxes, and the paper towels. 

Wow, that tower is looking good!

Great team work! 

Oh well, try again!

A fascination with glue dominoes ensued! Look at all the different trial and error methods that were used to get just the right effect!

Too close. 

A variation on the floor. 

Last year's glue bottles were added. 

Finally, the group achieved success! Their perseverance paid off!

Check out the next four photos! 

Great work! 

What is perseverance? 

While others built, some students chose to do a geography puzzle. 

Parents & Students

 Here are some links for you to peruse as we start our year of learning together:

A. This blog is the centerpiece of our classroom community. It is a wonderful space for sharing and learning together. Here is a link to an article I wrote about the benefits of classroom blogging. I hope you'll have a chance to read it before our Back to School Night.




B. We also have a class Photo-of-the-Day blog! Anyone is welcome to contribute a photo or comment throughout the year. Join our 365 Photo-of-the-day project! :-)

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Like Buck off a dock, let's jump right into blogging!

Students, please leave a comment telling us about yourself. What did you do over your summer break? What adventures and experiences did you enjoyed?

If you are one of our blogging buddies, please introduce yourself to my new class. Where are you from? What have you been up to?

Remember to proofread your comment with a parent before you publish! 

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